Srivastava, Bundela lead fine rally
Ankit Srivastava and Devendra Bundela led a fine rally as hosts Madhya Pradesh recovered from 77/5 to end the first day of their Central Zone Ranji Trophy clash against Vidarbha on a respectable 317/8
Sankhya Krishnan
13-Nov-2000
Ankit Srivastava and Devendra Bundela led a fine rally as hosts Madhya
Pradesh recovered from 77/5 to end the first day of their Central Zone
Ranji Trophy clash against Vidarbha on a respectable 317/8.
After Vidarbha on the toss and elected to field, MP lost allrounder
Harvinder Sodhi, who opens both the batting and the bowling, and onedrop Amay Khurasia cheaply. Bundela and Jai Prakash Yadayv then led a
semblance of a recovery, adding 56 before medium pacer Umesh Patil
struck. The 21 year old took three wickets in three sucessive overs to
leave MP floundering at 77/5. Bundela and skipper Chandrakant Pandit
added 50 for the sixth wicket before the veteran fell for a brisk 31
off just 39 balls.
At 127/6, things were still looking bleak for MP. But Bundela and
Srivastava turned things around with a 108 run stand that ended when
the former gave wicket keeper Vinay Naidu his fourth catch behind the
stumps. His 83 came off 204 balls and featured 13 fours and one six.
Srivastava did not falter though, and shepherded the tail through to
317/8 in 90 overs. He will be looking to add more to a brisk
undefeated 117 (137 balls, 20 fours) when the match resumes on
Tuesday.